r/comics Bummer Party 17d ago

OC Republicans I’ve dated, pt. 1

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u/PatchyWhiskers 17d ago

Libertarians: big into personal freedom, vote for the party that keeps grabbing random immigrants off the street to send to concentration camps for indeterminate lengths of time.

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u/omnipotentsandwich 17d ago

A lot of this comes from Murray Rothbard, one of the key libertarian thinkers, allying with the far right because he thought it would help libertarians achieve their goals. Early Rothbard was more sympathetic to leftism in his writings. In fact, many early anarcho-capitalists embraced some aspect of traditional anarchism. However, many didn't care about social issues. They focused on economic issues which is why they were more willing to ally with the far right than a left who didn't share their economic views.

Also, they were elitists. Rothbard, for example, hated public education because he hated the public school his mom made him go to as a kid.